Victor Mazzeo:
#AMNHtweetup #dinosaur #fossil #museum
Victor Mazzeo:
#AMNHtweetup #fossil #museum #dinosaur #NYC
Victor Mazzeo:
#AMNHtweetup #dinosaur #nyc #museum #fossil #skull
Victor Mazzeo:
#AMNHtweetup #skull #fossil #museum #nyc #dinosaur #TRex #TyrannosaurusRex #teeth
Victor Mazzeo:
The bowls of the @AMNH.
Victor Mazzeo:
The @AMNH basement.
Victor Mazzeo:
Beyond what the tourists see, the @AMNH has an incredible collection of preserved spices in its basement. Awesome stuff.
Victor Mazzeo:
A fly collection in the private research area of the @AMNH. One of hundreds.
Victor Mazzeo:
The basement of @AMNH. It's just turtles all the way down.
Victor Mazzeo:
Last night I had the unique pleasure of getting a behind the scenes peek at the vast, historical #herpetology collection of the American Museum of Natural History. This collection dates back to the 1800's and includes hundreds of thousands of individually
Victor Mazzeo:
This #Galapagos #tortoise is over a 100 years old. It was prepared for an exhibit at @AMNH in the late 1800's but (along with several others) never used. It sits in a storage room on a shelf with the others all lined up as if waiting to start a race that
Victor Mazzeo:
This Jackson's #chameleon was preserved in a specific manner which tinted its bones red and forced the flesh to become transparent. A brilliant age-old technique that has been pushed aside in favor of newer technologies such as in house CT scans which off
Victor Mazzeo:
Alligators, both preserved and in headless skeleton form, fill scores of shelves in the vast storage rooms of the American Museum of Natural History. Most are well over a half century old.
Victor Mazzeo:
A Galapagos tortoise at @amnh awaits a public debut that may never come. He's been waiting on a shelf in the museums storage rooms since the 1800's.
Victor Mazzeo:
The long narrow herpetology storage rooms of #AMNH may be organized and house hundreds of thousands of specimens, but they are also right out of a Vincent Price film. Just imagine being trapped in here in "Night at the Museum". Yeah, no thanks ;)